Hey mommas, lets discuss stress and breastfeeding, and does it impact milk production? If so, how? Good news is I’m here to tell you! The answer is yes, stress can impact your milk production and breastfeeding, resulting is a possible decrease in milk quantity. Stress can be a challenge and possible threats to your milk supply and breastfeeding journey. What happens during milk production process is prolactin is a the essential hormone in making milk, oxytocin is also an essential hormone, allowing or essentially doing the job of effectively ejecting milk also know as the Let Down, that is when milk is flowing out of breast at best or after continual stimulation from baby, the let down happens and its usually because baby worked by massaging, and kneading breast, along with sucking and suckling. Now let’s bring stress into play. When you mentally, emotionally or even physically stress. This can interrupt and interfere with prolactin and oxytocin. Stress may cause your prolactin to decrease, and oxytocin hormone to cause back ups or dry up instead of let downs. Stress can be reduced, by gaining support outside of homes and talking to your care provider. If you notice stress is taking effect on supply, you can attach and feed baby more often. You can power pump. You can pinpoint what, who, how is stress caused and reduce that. You can join breastfeeding groups to discuss matters, gain support, and befriend other breastfeeding mommas. I know it’s hard not to stress but we can start by reducing stress, and working to fully eliminate stress. So your body can work best for your baby to get some good eats. Hey mommas how did you handle stress and did it effect your milk supply? 

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https://aeroflowbreastpumps.com/blog/stress-breastfeeding#:~:text=Stress%20and%20Breast%20Milk%20Supply,milk%20from%20the%20breast)%20reduced.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK507829/